A good manager needs to be able to hire, lead, inspire, and deliver. It’s a tricky balance of often disparate skills and deliverables, but this book sheds a lot of light on how to do it.
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I was recently hanging out with a buddy who, responding to my standby joke about how we must all be
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Michael Pollan’s latest book wasn’t quite as mindblowing as the psychedelic experiences he describes in it, but it’s definitely a great read, especially for folks with no background in this particular subject matter.
Read MoreA professor of law at Columbia University looks at the regulatory and legal frameworks that companies use to protect and aggrandize power, wealth, and intellectual property.
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A review of a 2020 novel by Lydia Millet that integrates climate fiction into the classic Bildungsroman.
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Nat looks at a new book by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw about women in the mobility and transportation space, and asks whether a politics of benevolent incrementalism is going to help us solve the climate crisis.
Read More2021 was, in many ways, even weirder than 2020. Was the pandemic finally over? Or was it just another series
Read MoreA new book looks at the militarization of police forces in the United States, how it costs taxpayers a staggering amount of money, threatens American democracy, and, above all else, doesn’t actually do much to reduce crime.
Read MoreA great read for the fall of 2021, or the fall of the Republic.
Read MoreThe platform economy dominates the economy today. This book offers numerous valuable lessons for how we can think about the architecture of systems in public infrastructure.
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